Quotes tagged ‘Love’

“I'm afraid the articulate is the enemy of the erotic. Isn't the whole point that you don't know what your love will do next, that you give yourself over to a sensory experience that you haven't planned and can't control? The reason I like sex is because I can finally, for a moment, turn off my neuro…”

— David Henry Hwang, Juliette Le Gall, Irène Jacob, imdb.com

“And there’s a lot about what I want that I don’t understand and that I don’t expect a lover to understand. But I think we all live in our own version of the truth, and thus are prone to terrible miscommunications.”

— David Henry Hwang, Juliette Le Gall, Irène Jacob, imdb.com

“We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”

— Richard Matheson, amazon.com

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:9, amazon.com

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

— Revelation 21:4, amazon.com

“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.”

— 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, bibles.org

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”

— Isaiah 43:1, bibles.org

“I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.”

— Romans 8:18, bibles.org

“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”

— Romans 8:28, amazon.com

“He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.”

— Psalm 107:20, amazon.com

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

— Psalm 147:3, amazon.com

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

— John 14:27, amazon.com

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

— Psalm 73:26, amazon.com

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

— Isaiah 41:10, amazon.com

“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”

— Psalm 34:18, amazon.com

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate dissimilarity that is the true marker of the 'right' person.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

“We speak of 'love' as if it were a single, undifferentiated thing, but it comprises two very different modes: being loved and loving. We should marry when we are ready to do the latter and have become aware of our unnatural--and dangerous--fixation on the former.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

“Our romantic lives are fated to be sad and incomplete, because we are creatures driven by two essential desires which point powerfully in entirely opposing directions.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com